Newly created RabbitMQ user cannot connect to an exchange without configure permission

[myasul]

I am creating a user and set its permission (read & write) using the RabbitMQ Management API. But whenever I try to connect to the broker without configure permission via amqplib it throws an error Operation failed: ExchangeDeclare; 403 (ACCESS-REFUSED) with message "ACCESS_REFUSED - access to exchange 'amq.topic' in vhost '/' refused for user.

When I set the configure permission it connects properly. Do the users really need to have configure permission just to connect to the broker? I only want them to publish and receive messages.

I set them via using this request:

PUT http://localhost:15672/api/permissions/%2F/<username>
{
    configure: '^$',
    write: '^(amq\.topic)$',
    read: '^(amq\.topic)$'
}

[myasul]

Please disregard this, I fixed the issue by using only connect only rather than with connection.createChannel.

[michaelklishin]

@myasul this is by design: users do not have any permissions unless you grant them some.

Connecting with an AMQP 0-9-1 client without opening a channel is hardly useful.